On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:37:40 -0000, Nico Golde <n...@ngolde.de> wrote:
* Ivan Kanakarakis <ivan.ka...@gmail.com> [2012-04-20 01:54]:
I think a nice thing to do that would also resolve the
naming choice would be to have -k or some other argument
mean that ii should read the -k flag as an env var. so
$ ii -k IRCPASS
would getenv("IRCPASS"), and
$ ii -k OFTCPASS
would getenv("OFTCPASS")
etc
I agree this is actually also a very nice solution! I will think about
that a
little before I commit.
Environment variables are of course also visible using ps (probably ps e
or ps -e, depending on your system, but I'm not on a unice to test atm). I
don't think, however, that they're leaked on any modern Unix starting with
Solaris 9.
Given this lists fetish for esoteric systems, we should tread carefully
and test before making choices. I recommend using regular files whose
permissions are better understood. But then again, files are usually
world-readable by default whereas environment variables nowadays are not,
so environment variables make at least equal sense.
[Note to self: Party, not write, after eleven o'clock.]
--
-,Bjartur
